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That’s the goalkeeper we should all be over if we want as assured thing as possible.

Think we’ll make our moves after the big boys have made theirs start of this window. Man City / Chelsea / Man Utd / Liverpool will look to have all done their big boy business, it then gives us a clean run on others.

He’s a typical Seria A signing where they’ll get their value. They’ll likely be wanting it to be loan with option to buy too, so if he doesn’t click it’s no loss. If it clicks, they will feel they are picking up a good buy.

Same as last summer, Madueke is the one I want. And unlike last summer, he’s actually going to be more attainable since Chelsea are targeting yet another winger (and all the talk is they are doubling down on Neto). Progresses the ball extremely well. Can retain it high up the pitch. Both footed. Still got a ceiling to tap into as he becomes more mature as a footballer. £35m for him. £45m on a CB. £25m on a GK. DCL on a free :/ Then a blow out on a CM after we move on Longstaff.

People need to get on board that Trafford is a bloody good goalkeeper for his age. League One Team of the Year. Championship Team of the Year. Already had experience of plying trade and making his mistakes in Prem. All by he's 22 and 150 pro games. Maintain if he was European and coming from a club abroad, people would be losing their mind over getting him.

2024 he missed 1 game through sniffles. Worry would be hamstrings as that’s a regular injury. But not needing to play every game and chase lost causes may help? It’s a low bar to be more reliable than Wilson though.

Would usually say players can be sold and replaced, but Tino is like Hall. They’re young, English and in positions they clearly will have locked down for 6+ seasons minimum for us, so they’re unique in sense we need to keep at all costs. Just don’t have a price we can sell at, because we can’t replace for what they bring both quality and nationality wise.

I don’t mind DCL. Literally a back up striker for at worse, one season. If I could think of some good strikers that would cost less than £10m then sure, but I can’t. Howe clearly favours experience in that 2nd striker and him coming on for final 20 of games isn’t some roof falling in stuff.

Targett to Burnley as part of negotiations with Burnley for Trafford? I.e. We will go £25m+£5m (bonus related), you have Targett for £5m. Everyones happy.

I’m just going to have to agree to disagree on that logic. Man City 21-22 99 goals / 22-23 94 goals Man Utd 11-12 89 goals (+56GD) / 12-13 86 goals (43GD)

Madueke similar to Minteh in carries with the ball on the right. He’s also both strong on his right foot so not sure where he’s only left footed is from? Looking at above, Van Hecke would be a good replacement for Schar. Sure someone floated his name other month?

It’s literally like saying SAF signing RVP won them the title in 2013. It didn’t. Haaland had a big output, but Man City were scoring goals loads before him, it just then shifted more through him which has hurt them long term, all whilst the defence has fell of a cliff edge (and midfield too as they’ve needed to cover Haaland press more).

RW is still a key position, but it’s not one we need to spend £60m on and make our highest earner, which Mbeumo would be. Man City signed Haaland, neglected their defence and look what happened? We don’t have to plunge a huge amount into a ‘proven’ RW that has goals. We’ve got goals around our team, and I’m confident if we got a decent CM, more goals would come from there. Like the amount of times Joelinton gets into the box, he should be scoring more. Tonali I would be expecting to double his tally next season. A good back up striker chips in with some goals too. CB / GK / CM the funds spent well. RW / ST the funds on low buys / potential That’s how I want to see things giving how we play and our limitations have been shown over past 12 months.

£60m for vast majority of players isn’t good value. Yes we’d want that, doesn’t mean they’re worth it. Once you are getting to that point, they need to be near best in their class where similar players are unattainable and Mbeumo isn’t that for me (like Gordon wouldn’t be for the value we’d want). Other season people were getting proper up on Bowen, it’s not much different IMO. There’s far better value out there for RW. When it comes to closing gap on the teams above, adding another goalscorer from RW isn’t the money breaking club record deal / wage we have to make. A better player there in terms of eye for a pass / ball retention / progression than Murphy, yes, but having a top CB, better GK and another top CM are the key positions (with a back up ST). We are good at creating chances under Howe, our issue is conceding chances. We rarely look like winning games 1-0 if needed, always require us needing to score at least 2, maybe 3 in away games. 153 goals in 76 games. Superb. 109 goals conceded in 76 games. Not superb.

All for it, if it means Madueke they’re happy to sell for like £30m

We’re not near the level of having a youth system that can churn out sales, so we can’t load up on a squad that has no resale otherwise we’re just fucked down the line. Have to balance things and Mbeumo at £60m with likely £200k pw wages isn’t that for me. This season was a big output, but if he’s back to 1 in 3.5, is it good value?

The Brazil market gets overhyped far too much it’s laughable. Rather we spent £40m on three British players who are better. Could rattle off 15 names straight away that have moved in past 24 months and done fuck all, and cost probably like £300m. Then people will go ‘yea, but Murillo and Vini Jr’. Like us for every Wharton, you’d have a Johnathon Rowe. And that bottom player is infinitely better.

It’s just a stupidly good deal. Guy will be moving on to a top European club in January, guaranteed. Clubs obviously scared he’s lost his mojo after moving to Saudi at a young age, but that will be shown to be shite as he delivers an output he was doing at Celta Vigo that originally had likes of Man City / Barcelona interested.

£60m for Mbeumo is a clear, leave and move on. Let Man Utd spend that on him.

Doesn't matter, he's been in UK since 2018 so will count as English grown for European purposes. Just I can't remember if his age is still within u21 cut off?

Require registering: Pope, New GK, Ruddy, Tino, Trippier, Schar, New CB, Botman, Burn, New FB, Bruno, Joelinton, Willock, New CM, Tonali, Gordon, Barnes, Isak, Murphy, New ST, New RW 8 English slots all covered. Not registered but will be part of squad: Hall, Osula, Miley Not registered as you want them gone / extreme back up for league and domestic cups: Vlac, Targett, Ashby, Krafth, Lascelles, Longstaff, Targett, Wilson If that is the situation, it shows where we can sign players. Don't get FB for example, Targett moves into registering. But if we're honest, it's those players we need to move on and get new players in. Edit: That new FB/CM/ST could be English u21 that doesn't require registering and we can register Krafth who's the emergency 5th CB. Longstaff can also be registered as HG and have no impact on rest of slots if needed.

Wouldn't Osula count as English U21 and not require registering?

Blame the Saudis for that. They conveniently gave DAZN £1bn to cover it after getting the World Cup. Another thing they've done which has helped our rivals Yet opposition fans get themselves into a pissy fit about them owning us.

Villa to be lauded as top business as they get money back (like they did with Diaby) but then downgrade that position again as they did after Diaby (Phillogene), who they again sold and replaced with Malen. It's just peak Monchi, churning through transfers like anything. Held together just about because of Emery, but it's an awful model and will collapse quick post Emery.

Also why Howe wants business done early. Easier to get players into starting XI for first game of season if they’ve impressed across pre season in games and training, rather than come in with one week to go. Howe likely wants to evolve the team, but probably needs the players in before pre season starts to enable him to do that without rocking the boat too much.